Feb 23 2012
More Pix
Of Istanbul.
These were taken during out cruise on the Bosphorous on Sunday. In this one-someone has money:
This is the old fort that guarded the entrance from the Mamara Sea:
The view of a fort near the second bridge North of Istanbul:
Literally Hundreds of ships transit the straits each day. Making for a long day for the bridge crews:
On Galata tower it would seem the Seagulls are unfazed:
And one thing the city has too much of-is mosques.
And lets not forget why it all happened that way-(pictures taken from the Panorama of the siege of Istanbul):
Here are the ruins of the wall still as it was in June of 1453:
Oh, was there a siege of Istanbul? Who knew?
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Skippy, that’s not just a fort, that’s the Rumeli: the Throat Cutter. Previous sieges of Constantinople had been lifted by reinforcements from the Black Sea. Mehmet II built this fort in less than a month in order to prevent reinforcements from that direction, and it worked.
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